At Stiernholm Consulting, we strongly believe that good structure strengthens productivity. This applies to us as individuals as well as for our organizations. Here, David Stiernholm, Struktör, shares his concrete tips on how to visualize, simplify and get more time for what is important.
How can you quickly get into "focus mode" when you have important tasks to get done?
Done! episode No. 589 is about a Windows app that ...
Like many times before, I got a certain question during one of my lectures last week: “All this structuring - doesn’t it take a lot of time?”. I understand ...
Are only the more extensive structural improvements worth your time and trouble? By this I mean ...
You want to find emails you look for immediately.
But how?
This week's episode of Done! is about an email app feature that ...
To withdraw, close the door behind you and make sure that you are not disturbed when you need to focus on a prioritized task is only possible to do wholeheartedly when ...
Have you missed something important in a fast-paced chat flow?
This week’s episode of Done! - No. 587 - is about the three kinds of chat messages that you need to ...
“I have always died a little on the inside when hearing words such as ‘structure’, ‘order’ and ‘routines’”, wrote a reader of my book on structure last week. I perceive this to be a rather common perspective on the subject in question. Perhaps it has to do with ...
Do you have tasks that you tend to postpone more than others?
This week’s episode of Done! - No. 586 - is about a trick that ...
Let us say you want to create a better structure at work. You are constantly overwhelmed and want to get organized so that it becomes ...
When we have difficult and demanding tasks to do, the kind where we need to be creative, some of us tend to ...
Have you ever been in charge of a recurring meeting in a project or a collaboration, and when the meeting is about to start you ask yourself “What are we going to talk about today?” - and you have gone completely blank?
Do you really have to use a timer to keep track of time when you do your ”Pomodoros”?
Today’s episode of Done! - No. 585 - is about an unconventional way to ...
Some of us save documents on the computer desktop. It may feel as a good idea, because then we can ...
We all need to work uninterrupted from time to time. When we have a difficult task before us it often requires ...
How often should you take breaks when working?
There's debate among experts, but ...
Sometimes a large task takes longer than we had anticipated. We thought we would have more than enough time to finish before Friday and even time to do other tasks, but something comes up and ...
Do you think of work when you are free - even if you don’t want to?
This week, episode No. 584 of Done! is about how to feel...
If you have promised to meet someone at a particular hour and then mistakenly book another meeting at the very same hour, you know how ...
I often ask the audience at my lectures if they receive a lot of email and I virtually always get a loud ”Yes!” shouted back at me, accompanied by ...
When the deadline is drawing closer, there is still a lot of work to get done, and the pressure is rising, people ...
